Psalm 65:2 (NASB)
2 O You who hear prayer, To You all men come.

In this psalm of David, he sings to God, acknowledging that God is one that hears our prayers. He also declares that all people have a built in knowledge of the existence of God.

Many years ago, a pastor at the church we attended made it a practice to have lunch with someone new he had met each week, so that he could share the gospel and challenge them to begin reading the Bible. Occasionally, he would get approached by an atheist, who would use the lunch as a way to show him how foolish our pastor was in believing in the concept of God. During his sermon on Sunday, our pastor retold of his experience with an atheist that previous week.

When confronted with someone with that agenda, the pastor would do two things. The first was to ask them when they stopped believing in God. In a high percentage of situations, atheists at an earlier point in their life believe in God.  But because of a traumatic experience, decide to give up on God and then no longer believe that He exists. That was the case for this young man. The second thing that he would do is to ask them if they believed in prayer. For someone that doesn’t believe in the existence of God, prayer doesn’t make sense to them. And that was the case in this situation too. The young man said that prayer didn’t matter since there was no God to listen to the prayer.

Our pastor then told him that since that was his belief, he was sure that the young man wouldn’t mind if he prayed that God would rain down on him the destruction of his life, take away from him all of those that he held dear, and bring upon him all manner of sickness and illness.

The young man turned white and literally begged the pastor not to do that. The words of David rang true…”To You all men come.”

Heavenly Father, I praise you that your Glory is evident to all of creation. I thank you that you hear our prayers. May my prayers be worthy of the praise and honor that you deserve. Amen.

Always praying for the glory of God,